Good morning, Welcome to the last week of August! Fortunately, we’re all interested in tech, where there is always something interesting being announced – or rumored. On to the update: The United States’ PC Hangover There were lots of interesting tidbits in the latest comScore U.S. Mobile App Report, particularly the list of the topSubscribe […]
Daily Update: What Consoles Say About iPads, Uber Opens API, The Samsung Nook
Good morning, Yesterday I wrote about my changing view on consoles in a piece called Games and Good Enough. As most of you may recall, last June I argued that consoles would soon be disrupted. Now I’ve changed my mind; I suspect that consoles will in fact safely own the high end of the gamingSubscribe […]
Daily Update: Buzzfeed Raises $50 million, NVidia’s Results and Gaming’s Resilience, Apple University Profiled
Good morning, I got really annoyed at the mainstream media last night, which perhaps makes me especially favorable to today’s first item about Buzzfeed. On to the updates: Buzzfeed Raises $50 million From the New York Times: BuzzFeed just closed a new $50 million investment from Andreessen Horowitz, a prominent venture capital firm in SiliconSubscribe […]
Daily Update: Apple/China Follow-up, The iPhone in India (versus China), Buying Smartphones in the U.S.
Good morning, I apologize that today’s update is so late – I’m very much looking forward to being back in Taiwan’s time zone! Stereotypes and pattern-matching are funny things, and all three items today touch on them in different ways. The latter two updates confirm some of my suspicions about the smartphone market, but theSubscribe […]
Daily Update: Understanding China, or Not; Apple’s China Risk; China Cracking Down on Messaging Apps
Good morning, The position of China in tech is so fascinating: it is well on its way to being the most important market in the world, yet it is largely inaccessible to most foreign companies. The big exception in the U.S. is Apple, so we start there. On to the update: Understanding China, or NotSubscribe […]
Daily Update: Sprint Abandons T-Mobile Bid, Microsoft Hires New Head of BD, Apple Touts App Store
Good morning, Yesterday I wrote about P&G’s recent decision to reduce its brands from nearly 200 to less than 100. While the easy takeaway is to talk about focus and bloat, I actually think that there is a tech story here as well. After all, lots of brands made a lot of sense in theSubscribe […]
Pleco: Building a Business, not an App
This past week has not been the first outbreak of independent developer angst over the app store, but it feels like it has been one of the more intense. The pump was primed by the news that Kim Kardashian: Hollywood is on pace to make $200 million this year, news that was in stark contrast […]
Big Blue and Apple’s Soul
I hope you’ll forgive my writing about week-old news,1 but I find it striking to compare the paucity of words written about Apple’s partnership with IBM, at least relative to what was written when Apple acquired Beats. After all, the IBM partnership is a much bigger deal. It certainly seems that Tim Cook feels the […]
Daily Update: iPads, PCs, and Minutes per Day; Apple’s Strength in China; Microsoft’s Mixed Results
Good morning, I apologize that today’s update is coming in a bit late, but I trust it will be worth it! Yesterday was a double-header with both Apple and Microsoft reporting results. I’ll take both in turn, but I think one of the more interesting takeaways comes from looking at them together. On to theSubscribe […]
Daily Update: LINE IPO, Kindle Unlimited, Apple and China
Good morning, I am back from vacation, although I can’t say I picked the ideal week for it, particularly given the dual Microsoft memos as well as the Apple-IBM deal. I plan to write about both on the main site this week. In the meantime, there are lots of earnings results this week; I’m hopingSubscribe […]